Exploring JG Ballard's 20th century preoccupation with the machine versus the 21st century obsession with the digital towards an anthropological take on disembodiment, honing in on how Ballard perceives both the body and the human condition.

Programme

Always [Crashing], Jason Wood/Simon Barker, UK 2016, 14 mins

Crash!, Harley Cokeliss, UK 1971, 17 mins

Dream A40, Lloyd Reckord, UK 1965, 16 mins

I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. The sense of violence and desire, power and energy; the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape. Everything is there: the speed and violence of our age, the strange love affair with the machine, with its own death. - JG Ballard in Crash! (Harley Cokeliss, 1971)

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